{"id":246820,"date":"2025-07-30T01:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T01:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/246820\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T01:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T01:58:13","slug":"cardinals-training-camp-dl-darius-robinson-has-something-to-prove-in-his-second-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/246820\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals training camp: DL Darius Robinson has something to prove in his second season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/arizona-cardinals\/355\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Arizona Cardinals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Arizona Cardinals<\/a> kicked off their second week of training camp on Monday with the pads finally coming on. The competition between players and position battles continue.<\/p>\n<p>We have detailed a number of key position battles for the team.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Aside from those battles, there are some individual players who have something to prove in camp this year.<\/p>\n<p>One such player is second-year defensive lineman Darius Robinson.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinals DL Darius Robinson has something to prove<\/p>\n<p>Robinson, a first-round pick in 2024, had a disaster of a rookie season. After looking solid in limited preseason work, he injured his calf before the season and lost half the year. Then his mother died and the calf didn&#8217;t do well in his firts practice back, so he only ended up playing in six games, a total of 183 snaps.<\/p>\n<p>He had 10 tackles and a sack.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals added Calais Campbell and Dalvin Tomlinson in free agency, brought back L.J. Collier and drafted Walter Nolen. Justin Jones is coming back from a season-ending injury.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He has a lot of competition for playing time.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid looking like a first-round bust, which has happened to almost every first-round defensive lineman the Cardinals have drafted since coming to Arizona, he will need to really step up.<\/p>\n<p>Now, early returns in camp have been great. He looks disruptive, but he needs to keep that up and make plays when the regular season rolls around.<\/p>\n<p>Get more Cardinals and NFL coverage from Cards Wire&#8217;s Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/27gxR7Oml5yVPywhOG8KHR?si=cGJ0FN6aRBquiLus5nj7rw&amp;nd=1&amp;dlsi=05e790ef05a641b8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Spotify;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/music.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL9sICHPD_aT9zxnG7dJj6izJWgMhLMh_U&amp;si=rpNldnLNN-_DdW8R\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:YouTube;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-rise-up-see-red-podcast\/id670822447?mt=2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Apple podcasts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Apple podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Cards Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/cardswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/cardinals\/2025\/07\/29\/dl-darius-robinson-has-something-to-prove-in-training-camp\/85432959007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:DL Darius Robinson has something to prove in training camp;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">DL Darius Robinson has something to prove in training camp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Arizona Cardinals kicked off their second week of training camp on Monday with the pads finally coming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2604,4755,1327,4753,9598,7,4754,4751,6,8345,6957,8896,1485],"class_list":{"0":"post-246820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-arizonacardinals","11":"tag-calais-campbell","12":"tag-cardinals","13":"tag-dalvin-tomlinson","14":"tag-darius-robinson","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-justin-jones","17":"tag-l-j-collier","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-rookie-season","20":"tag-the-cardinals","21":"tag-training-camp","22":"tag-walter-nolen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}